and one for march!!

Seriously, am I alive? Not in the blogging world anymore :(  wah wah wah

So since I'm being lazy, I am not going to update on anything that is new. Quite frankly, I am too tired. So instead I am going to post some quotes that I came across from this blog. I am especially fond of this first one:

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. " 

— C.S. Lewis

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

  ~Leo J. Burke

"It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born.  This is not necessarily cause for alarm.  The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money."

  ~Elinor Goulding Smith

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."  

~Stacia Tauscher


"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring." 

~Liz Armbruster

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

  ~Harold Hulbert

"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."

  ~Fran Lebowitz

"Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next." 

~Franklin P. Jones

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six."
~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese


"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to." 
~Robert Brault

"If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory." 

~Robert Brault


"There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age." 

~Benjamin Spock

 

 

"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."

  ~Robert Gallagher

 

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."  

~Phyllis Diller

Man, Phyllis... can I get an 'AMEN!' to that? You know, when the Midwest was being pounded with inch after inch of snow a couple weeks ago, I actually DID shovel the walk before it stopped snowing. It was very depressing to watch the work I had done, get undone, just feet behind me. Ah, but such is life...

 

Actually, posting all of these quotes reminded me that I ripped out some quote from some random place (awesome memory, I know) and put it in my bathroom so I could read it every day. I put it there to remind myself to constantly be aware of who I am and who I am teaching my children to become. 

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

~Robert Fulghum